On 2012/01/26 07:52 (GMT-0500) Anton Aylward composed:
I usually have many (anywhere from 10 to 40) tabs open and FF set to restore the previous session when starting. But with 9.x this seem to take forever, as in "won't open".
FF starts and I get the KDE border, the title bar and the minimise/maximise/close buttons on top right but the frame doesn't fill. I wait and wait and wait.
This is on a full-screen window but a less than full screen makes no difference.
I wait and wait, and if I flip to another virtual screen and back I think I have to start waiting from the beginning again. It seems to take anywhere from 8 minutes to 20 minutes - yes I've timed it - before the page renders. I don't think this has anything to do with network speeds. When a page is up and I try scrolling I get no response and wait and wait. I haven't timed this part of it, but it seems only a few minutes. If I try moving to another tab its wait, wait, wait all over again.
The only time I recall this happening to me (using KDE3 on 11.4), it turns out there was tab content from an inaccessible CIFS source. Once I solved the CIFS problem with umount -a -t cifs then remounting, 9.0.1 started normally.
In despair I tried rolling back and ended up with FF 4.0.1 - what happened to the inbetweens? - and that is responsive and fast on all operations.
I don't think old versions have ever stayed on the mirrors more than a matter of hours or a day or two. OTOH, you can always run old versions downloaded from mozilla.org mirrors. In fact, on most of my systems, the only FF versions I have installed from openSUSE repos are 3.6.x. 2.0.0.20 and current (9.0.1 as of last checked) I run from unpacked mozilla.org downloads.
Yes, this is under KDE4.7 and 11.4 on a 32-bit machine.
Can anyone advise why this dramatically anomalous behaviour with 9.0.1 occurs?
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